MA Global Studies: A European Perspective

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Two-year programme. Students attend LSE for either their first or second year and also attend, for a year, one of the following participating institutions: Leipzig, Vienna, Wroclaw, Berlin or Leiden. Students follow the MSc Global History programme at the LSE:

MSc Global History

Full-year programme. Students must take compulsory courses to the value of 2.5 units, optional courses to the value of one unit and a half-unit dissertation as shown.

Paper

Course number and title

1a

EH481 Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis (M) (H)

1b

EH479 Dissertation in Global History (10,000 words) (H) (L)

2

Either EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800
or
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries

3

One of the following (if not taken under paper 2):
EH411 Epidemics and Economic and Social History: From the Black Death to the Present
EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries
HY423 Empire, Colonialism and Globalization

4

Either one full unit from (i) (if not already taken under paper 2 or paper 3 above) OR two half-units, one from (ii) and one from (iii) below:
(i) Full unit course:
EH411 Epidemics and Economic and Social History: from the Black Death to the Present
EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (n/a 08/09)
EH462 Latin American Development in the Twentieth Century: From Liberalism to Neo-Liberalism (n/a 08/09)
EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West compared, c1000-1800
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries
(ii) Half units to be taken in the Michaelmas Term:
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History (H)
EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H) (M)
EH417 Political Economy of Late Industrialisation (H) (n/a 08/09)
(iii) Half-unit to be taken in the Lent Term:
EH404 India and the World Economy (H)
EH408 International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H)
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History (H)
EH418 Research Issues in African Economic History* (H) (L) (n/a 08/09)
EH485 Scientific, Technical and Useful Knowledge from Song China to the Industrial Revolution (H)
EH486 International Economic Institutions since Word War I (H)
EH487 International Economic Institutions since World War I (H)
EU438 Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H) 

* Please note that EH418 is a pre-requisite of this course

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